I'm asking Eat Local Challenge participants to make a statement of participation for their personal challenges and thought I'd outline mine as well. My goals for the month are as follows:

1. What's your definition of local for this challenge? Local will be anything within 100 miles of where I am. When traveling, I will do my best to cook with local ingredients.

2. What exemptions will you claim?

Coffee from local roasters.

Yeast.

Spices when I can't find a local substitute.

Rice will be purchased from Massa Organics, which is 166 miles from San Francisco.

When eating out, anything is game at a restaurant that makes a claim of supporting local producers. I will do my best to eat out only at restaurants that support local producers.

I will not turn down anything made for me or offered in friendship or love.

3. What are your goals for the month? To try really integrating a local diet into a social life that doesn't always allow that. To never make others feel uncomfortable with the choices that I have made for my own diet. To figure out how to eat locally in a more budget-effective manner.

I'm asking Eat Local Challenge participants to make a statement of participation for their personal challenges and thought I'd outline mine as well. My goals for the month are as follows:

1. What's your definition of local for this challenge? Local will be anything within 100 miles of where I am. When traveling, I will do my best to cook with local ingredients.

2. What exemptions will you claim?

Coffee from local roasters.

Yeast.

Spices when I can't find a local substitute.

Rice will be purchased from Massa Organics, which is 166 miles from San Francisco.

When eating out, anything is game at a restaurant that makes a claim of supporting local producers. I will do my best to eat out only at restaurants that support local producers.

I will not turn down anything made for me or offered in friendship or love.

3. What are your goals for the month? To try really integrating a local diet into a social life that doesn't always allow that. To never make others feel uncomfortable with the choices that I have made for my own diet. To figure out how to eat locally in a more budget-effective manner.